[jakejake]

Or it could have been carefully written for a specific target audience (of which HN readers are not a part). Mind control!

[betterth]

Switch razors to Occam's Razor: all other things being equal, the idea that makes the fewest assumptions is better.

Either the government is engaging in a disinformation campaign that is so broad and so pervasive that even the blogs at the TSA are involved...

Or it's some idiot at an ineffective government organization who screwed up.